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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Dialogue Introduction: I'm Hearing Voices

For Character introduction post in the I'm Hearing Voices blog hop, I decided to have Leni & Damien introduce themselves. I knew I was going to use these two as soon as I read the prompt. They are to fun to write dialogue for! Why might you ask? Well I'll let them show you.

Leni and Damien, you have been summoned here. Please behave, and introduce one another:

Leni: "This is Damien he is a mercenary" Damien: "Your supposed to be introducing me, and that's the best you can do? That's like me saying, this is Leni, she is an assassin." Leni: "I am not an assassin" Damien: "You kill people for money." Leni: "No I don't"Damien: "Yes you do." Leni "Well then, why don't I have any money?" Damien: "Just cause you don't get money from killing doesn't mean you don't kill for money." Leni "Fine, I was an assassin." Damien "Oh yes I forgot, you want to be an apple farmer now."Leni: "No I don't." Damien: "Well then, what do you want to do?"Leni: "I don't know, I'm probably going to be dead after next weeks sacrifice anyway, so why does it matter."Damien: "It doesn't, I was just pointing out the flaw in calling me a mercenary. You know, one day you're going to have to stop relying on being dead to not make plans." Leni "Maybe, but I dont have to worry about that until after the sacrifice, and you do fight people for money."Damien: "No, I did fight people for money, now I'm unemployed." (Now Damien is lying--he isn't unemployed he is working for Leni's enemy but she doesn't know it)Leni: "Fine, I amend my introduction. This is Damien and he is an idiot." Damien: "I'm the idiot? Your the one who goes running into trouble without thinking twice about it."Leni: "I can take care of myself." Damien: "Yes, I know. Thats why I've had to save you so many times." Leni: "You save me? I wouldn't need saving if you didn't come behind me causing trouble in the first place." Damien: "I think we need to change the subject." Leni: "Fine."Damien: "Dont you want to tell people how hansomly good looking I am?" Leni: "Not particularly."

Okay, I'm over my word limit, so I'm gonna cut them off. I pulled Leni and Damien out of around about the middle of the story before Damien betrays her. They have been thrown together by Fitzroy who is trying to asses Leni's abilities, and keep her out of trouble. Damien is pretty happy go lucky, while Leni is a bit more stubborn and fatalistic. But hopefully you got that from their dialogue, and not me telling you about them.

Do you have characters you like to write dialogue for?

What do you think these two characters look like? I was curious what you guys would think since I didn't include any physical description.

Makes me wonder if they actually like each other and just don't want to admit it. I don't have a particular image of Damien in my mind but I see Leni as a brunette with long straight hair. I'm probably waaaay off on the mark with that???

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I am 25 years old, and have been told more than once, that I have a story to tell, or that I should write a memoir. I am not sure if I belive it, but I do know that I have good days and bad days, and on bad days I have to share, and what could be better than sharing annonomously with the internet world. I am not doing this for sympothy and I am not doing this for money. I am doing this because, I have long lived with the knowledge, that maybe, just maybe, my story could help someone else, like me. Someone going through what I am/did, or contemplating making the mistakes I made, to let people out there know, you are not alone.